BILL NUMBER: SB 1801	CHAPTERED  09/29/00

	CHAPTER   850
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 29, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 28, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 25, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 21, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 11, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 20, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 13, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Speier, Escutia, and Leslie
   (Coauthor:  Assembly Member Gallegos)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2000

   An act to amend Section 130060 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1801, Speier.  Health facilities:  seismic building standards.
   Existing law requires, after January 1, 2008, any general acute
care hospital building that is determined to be a potential risk of
collapse or pose a significant risk of loss of life to be used only
for nonacute care hospital purposes.  Existing law authorizes the
Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to grant a delay
in meeting this deadline if the hospital owner demonstrates that
compliance will result in a loss of health care capacity that may not
be provided by other general acute care hospitals within a
reasonable proximity.
   This bill would authorize the office to extend the January 1,
2008, deadline for certain hospital buildings of a general acute care
hospital, if the hospital agrees that, on or before January 1, 2013,
designated services shall be provided by moving into an existing
conforming building, relocating to a newly-built building, or
continuing in the building as retrofitted where the buildings are in
compliance with designated structural and nonstructural performance
categories.  The bill would require the office to establish a
schedule of interim work progress deadlines that hospitals would be
required to meet to be eligible for the deadline extension.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 130060 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   130060.  (a) After January 1, 2008, any general acute care
hospital building that is determined to be a potential risk of
collapse or pose significant loss of life shall only be used for
nonacute care hospital purposes.  A delay in this deadline may be
granted by the office upon a demonstration by the owner that
compliance will result in a loss of health care capacity that may not
be provided by other general acute care hospitals within a
reasonable proximity.
   (b) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this
subdivision, to facilitate the process of having more hospital
buildings in substantial compliance with this chapter and to take
nonconforming general acute care hospital inpatient buildings out of
service more quickly.
   (2) The functional contiguous grouping of hospital buildings of a
general acute care hospital, each of which provides, as the primary
source, one or more of the hospital's eight basic services as
specified in subdivision (a) of Section 1250, may receive a five-year
extension of the January 1, 2008, deadline specified in subdivision
(a) of this section pursuant to this subdivision for both structural
and nonstructural requirements.  A functional contiguous grouping
refers to buildings containing one or more basic hospital services
that are either attached or connected in a way that is acceptable to
the State Department of Health Services.  These buildings may be
either on the existing site or a new site.
   (3) To receive the five-year extension, a single building
containing all of the basic services or at least one building within
the contiguous grouping of hospital buildings shall have obtained a
building permit prior to 1973 and this building shall be evaluated
and classified as a nonconforming, Structural Performance Category 1
(SPC-1) building.  The classification shall be submitted to and
accepted by the Office of Statewide  Health Planning and Development.
  The identified hospital building shall be exempt from the
requirement in subdivision (a) until January 1, 2013, if the hospital
agrees that the basic service or services that were provided in that
building shall be provided, on or before January 1, 2013, as
follows:
   (A) Moved into an existing conforming Structural Performance
Category-3 (SPC-3), Structural Performance Category-4 (SPC-4), or
Structural Performance Category-5 (SPC-5) and Non-Structural
Performance Category-4 (NPC-4) or Non-Structural Performance
Category-5 (NPC-5) building.
   (B) Relocated to a newly-built compliant SPC-5 and NPC-4 or NPC-5
building.
   (C) Continued in the building if the building is retrofitted to a
SPC-5 and NPC-4 or NPC-5 building.
   (4) A five-year extension is also provided to a post 1973-building
if the hospital owner informs the Office of Statewide Health
Planning and Development that the building is classified as a SPC-1,
SPC-3, or SPC-4 and will be closed to general acute care inpatient
service use by January 1, 2013.  The basic services in the building
shall be relocated into a SPC-5 and NPC-4 or NPC-5 building by
January 1, 2013.
   (5) Any SPC-1 buildings, other than the building identified in
paragraph (3) or (4), in the contiguous grouping of hospital
buildings shall also be exempt from the requirement in subdivision
(a) until January 1, 2013.  However, on or before January 1, 2013, at
a minimum, each of these buildings shall be retrofitted to a SPC-2
and NPC-3 building, or no longer be used for general acute care
hospital inpatient services.
   (c) On or before March 1, 2001, the office shall establish a
schedule of interim work progress deadlines that hospitals shall be
required to meet to be eligible for the extension specified in
subdivision (b).  To receive this extension, the hospital building or
buildings shall meet the year 2002 nonstructural requirements.
   (d) A hospital building that is eligible for an extension pursuant
to this section shall meet the January 1, 2030, nonstructural and
structural deadline requirements if the building is to be used for
general acute care inpatient services after January 1, 2030.
   (e) Upon compliance with this section, the hospital shall be
issued a written notice of compliance by the office.  The office
shall send a written notice of violation to hospital owners that fail
to comply with this section.
